What if india and china go to war

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This year, Xi Jinping visited Nyingchi, which is just 20 kms from the Arunachal Pradesh border, as a symbolic act and a message to India. China has routinely released pictures of the injured Indian soldiers it had taken from the Galwan clash violating Geneva Conventions, in an attempt to wage a psywar. However, the question still remains. Why is China doing this—after 13 rounds of talks and disengagement at some points? The land grab is just one of them.

It wanted to dissuade India from joining any alliance against it led by the US. Punish India and portray it as a weak, inferior power, so as to undermine its role as a security provider in the region, thereby establishing China as the regional hegemon. Scare the other smaller countries of the region with whom it has territorial disputes and send a message to other major powers of the world, especially the US, Japan and Australia who are the members of the Quad.

China did not view India as a military threat earlier, and it did not have much presence in the depth areas of the LAC. In response, India has deepened its engagement with Quad members and signed four foundational agreements three of these in the last five years with the US, as well as logistics agreements with Japan, Australia, and France.

So China could launch a first-ever integrated cyber and kinetic attack on India. In fact, Washington has been avoiding making such clear statements as it cannot afford the consequences. The US may invest even more than it did in Afghanistan.

Washington is not prepared to fight a large-scale war with Beijing, and believes that it does not necessarily have a chance to win," Zhang Tengjun, deputy director of the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times. Chellaney also declared in the article: "But if some resolution can be found that reduces tensions in the Himalayas, it would free up Chinese capabilities to deal with the fallout of any Taiwan-related operation.

The position of Chellaney and his like is full of opportunism, trying to use the Taiwan question, China-US relations and other issues to provide India with a strategic bargaining chip.

However, they should understand that China will never waiver when it comes to safeguarding its territorial sovereignty. Other countries' provocative moves on the Taiwan question will only strengthen the Chinese mainland's resolve to realize reunification, and will only make the critical moment come earlier. These countries also know that if they make it "crystal clear" to militarily defend Taiwan, they will be risking their soldiers' own lives.

Chellaney has made hollow calls in the article, but he forgot to mention the severe consequences Washington will face by militarily involving in the Taiwan question.